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Exhibition view, Exposé-es, George Tony Stoll - Palais de Tokyo (17/02/2023 - 14/05/2023) Photo credit: Aurélien Mole
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Join art critic and historian Élisabeth Lebovici for the The International Association of Art Critics UK (AICA) lecture held in collaboration with ICA. Established to promote the practice and discipline of art criticism, AICA is an international organisation made up of thousands of art critics, writers, curators and scholars.
Lebovici’s history with art criticism has been staggered and shattered by ‘total social facts’. These include the AIDS epidemic and the #MeToo movement, challenging her to use miscomprehension as a relational method.
She traces shifts in her practice that emerged out of writing the book Ce que le sida m’a fait (What AIDS Has Done to Me, 2021), seeing the exhibition Exposé-es (2023) at Palais du Tokyo curated in response to her book and from both teaching to being taught by art practitioners.
Challenging us to question set ideas and assumptions, Lebovici will draw on art historian Daniel Arasser’s notion of ‘not seeing anything,’ using it as a guide and timeline for the lecture.
The lecture will be followed by a drinks reception in the ICA bar.
Lebovici’s history with art criticism has been staggered and shattered by ‘total social facts’. These include the AIDS epidemic and the #MeToo movement, challenging her to use miscomprehension as a relational method.
She traces shifts in her practice that emerged out of writing the book Ce que le sida m’a fait (What AIDS Has Done to Me, 2021), seeing the exhibition Exposé-es (2023) at Palais du Tokyo curated in response to her book and from both teaching to being taught by art practitioners.
Challenging us to question set ideas and assumptions, Lebovici will draw on art historian Daniel Arasser’s notion of ‘not seeing anything,’ using it as a guide and timeline for the lecture.
The lecture will be followed by a drinks reception in the ICA bar.
Bio
Élisabeth Lebovici is an art worker and critic living in Paris. A culture editor at Libération from 1991 – 2006, she was involved in ACT UP-Paris and a founding member of the LIG/Lesbiennes d’intérêt general fund, which supports lesbian-led public interest initiatives. From 2006 – 24, she has co-curated (with Patricia Falguières and Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez) a seminar at the Ecole des Haute Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) titled Something You Should Know: Artists and Producers.
Since the 1990s, she has contributed to numerous books, monographs, workshops and conferences on contemporary art, gender and queer studies. Lebovici is the author, with Catherine Gonnard, of a history of women artists in France between 1880 and the 2000s, Femme/artistes, Artistes/femmes, Paris de 1880 à nos jours (2007). Her book Ce que le sida m’a fait. Art et Activisime à la fin du 20è siècle (What AIDS Has Done to Me. Art and Activism at the End of the 20th Century) was awarded the Prix Pierre Daix in 2017 and initiated the exhibition Exposé-es at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris in 2023. Established to promote the practice and discipline of art criticism, The International Association of Art Critics (AICA) is an international organisation made up of thousands of art critics, writers, curators and scholars.
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07:00 pm
Wed, 16 Apr 2025
Cinema 1
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Cinema 1
- Both our Cinemas have step free access from The Mall and are accessible by ramp
- We have 1 wheelchair allocated space with a seat for a companion
- All seats are hard back, have a crushed velvet feel and they do not recline
- These are our seat size dimensions: W 42 x D 45 x H 52
- Arm rest either side of the seat dimensions: L 27 x W 7 x H 20
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Exhibition view, Exposé-es, Jesse Darling - Palais de Tokyo (17/02/2023 - 14/05/2023) Photo credit: Aurélien Mole
Élisabeth Lebovici © MACBA, Barcelona.
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